Artist: Various Artists

Title: Phono-Cylinders 2 / Various

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2012

Label: Folkways Records

UPC: 093070388727

Genre: Spoken

Album Tracks

1. In the Good Old Steamboat Days
2. That's Where I Come in
3. Farmer and the Businessman
4. A Confidential Chat
5. Old Daddy Pegleg
6. The Girl Who Threw Me Down
7. I Used to Be Afraid to Come Home in the Dark
8. The Laughing Song
9. I've Told His Missus All About Him
10. The Baseball Girl
11. For You Alone
12. Street Piano Medley
13. Mouse and the Clock
14. House Cleaning Time
15. B. P. O. E. - Elk's Song

This collection of 15 tracks comprises the second volume of a two-volume set of recordings made in the first decade of the 20th century on Edison recording cylinders. The recordings are from the private collection of George A. Blacker, who also provided background information about them in the liner notes. Although the recordings contain surface noise, the sound quality of the Edison cylinders is "superior" in fidelity to that of disc records of the time. This volume includes a political speech by Theodore Roosevelt, a monologue on baseball by Miss Ray Cox, instrumental and vocal songs, and a song about the Benevolent Protective Order of the Elks.